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In the tradition of his acclaimed books Eyewitness to America and Eyewitness to the American West , David Colbert draws on diaries, private letters, memoirs, and reportage to bring the 400 year history of the worlds most famous street to life in the words of the people whose lives were deeply entwined in Wall Streets performance. Eyewitness to Wall Street illuminates how the getting and spending of Wall Street is inextricably linked with Americas national character. From our first IPOthe European fund-raising that launched Americas colonizationthrough todays mass obsession with the Dow and Nasdaq, Eyewitness to Wall Street brims with accounts from people who saw it happenpoets and speculators, patriots and criminals, politicians and reportersincluding Daniel Defoe, Mark Twain, Franklin D. Roosevelt, Andrew Carnegie, Muriel Siebert, Warren Buffet, Connie Bruck, Christopher Buckley and Michael Lewis. Their accounts reveal the myriad ways that Wall Street has served not only as the epicenter of American finance but as a major factor in the larger events of American history, from the way Wall Street traders saved the Continental Army from bankruptcy and helped finance the Union during

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Author

Colbert, David

Publisher

New York: Broadway Books

Published

2001

Language

EN

ISBN

9780767906609

Category

business

Subjects

Economics, Finance, History

Rating

4.1 / 5 (5 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14